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1947
1947 - 0805.PDF
MAY 22ND, 1947 FLIGHT 471 HERE AND THERE and, later, witnessed flying demonstra-tions of the Gemini, Messenger and Aero- van. The delegation was received byMr. George Miles, director and chief designer. Engines on ShowW ATFORD, Hertfordshire, is to holdits own industrial exhibition next month. It will be opened by LordBrabazon of Tara on June 5th and will continue until the 18th, Several manu- Jturers familiar to Flight's readers willrepresented, in particular the derfavilland Engine Co., Ltd., who will be showing Gipsy engines, and theMonaco Motor and Engineering Co., Ltd., who will exhibit their 100 h.p., fiatfour, light aero engine. Fighters for Turkey FIVE hundred British fighter air-craft consisting of Mosquitoes, Spit- fires and Beaufighters will shortly bedelivered to Turkey. British pilots will fly the aircraft out, accompanied byDakotas, which will carry the pilots back to this country. Target H.M.S. Hawkins THE 30-year-old cruiser H.M.S.Hawkins, of 9,800 tons, will, it is believed, serve to the end as a target inthe bombing trials (mentioned in Flight of April 10th) being carried out thismonth. The latest information is that Naval air squadrons will not be engagedin the trials as was expected, but that R.A.F. squadrons will be the attackers.Lancastexs will probably be used to "deliver the goods." Rocket Research "DEPORTS from America state that the-tv United States Navy has developed a new supersonic rocket capable oftaking a useful load to a height of 235 miles. The models, named " Neptune,"at an estimated cost of £21,000 each, are expected to be ready for testing nextmonth. The power unit for the rocket weighs only 250 Ih hut is stated to give MY FAIREST CHILD :Miss F. Cooper, Assistant Director of the W.J.A.C,with F/S Hames in the cabin 'of the Fairchildnewly acquired by the Women's Junior AirCorps. an average speed of threetimes the speed of sound. Apparatus for transmit-ting data to the ground . will be carried. ExtractionM R- JOHN HOME-WOOD, an Austra- lian dentist, flies himselfand his dental equipment on a regular tour of coun-try towns in New South Wales which have noresident dentist. Using a Tiger Moth, he spendstwo weeks in each town, and as there are overfifty of them the number is well beyond his capa-city to handle. He is endeavouring to secure additional practi-tioners to join him in his enterprising venture. Bristol Visit MR. BAHADHURSINH VIJA1SINH,director of Ambica Airways, on his way back to India from America, isstaying in England for a fortnight. Whilst in America he accepted the Indian sales agency for tht.1 Bceclicralt. Corpora-tion. Mr. Vijaisinh believes that for a considerable time to come the bulk ofthe Indian internal traffic will be in passengers, and he is concentrating onsmall-capacity passenger aircraft. How- ever, he expects to fly to Bristol duringhis stay here to see the Brabazon I. The Bristol Aeroplane Co. are placing anOxford at his disposal. News in Brief IT is rumoured that during Russia'sMay Day fly-past in Moscow, a new Russian bomber similar to the AmericanSuperfortress was seen. * * * Two country houses have beenacquired for B.E.A. Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, bought for £13,000, is tobe used as a rest house for mobile female staff, and"Larchmoor," Stoke Poges, is Sharia Chenf Pasha, to accommodate nliiccs <ii the Supplierbranch of B.E.A. " Lurchmoor " was purchased at a cost of £29,000.* • « The head office of the Northern "Alu-miniuni Co., Ltd., formerly situated .it Banbury, ami the London sales office,formerly at Bruton Street, have been combined at Wellington House, Lan-caster Place, Strand, W.C.2. * » « Westlaud Aircraft, Ltd., announcethat Mr. Boulger has been reappointed to the company as deputy planningofficer, and Cdr. Bassett, K.N. (Kt<l.1. is now appointed commercial managu <>lNormalair. * « #G/C. Cunningham recently covered the 1,312 km distance between Lon-don and Norrkoping, in Central Swe- den, in a Vampire jet aircraft in1 hr 58 min. The Vampire's average- speed was 659 km per hour, the highestreached in Europe on sucij a long flight, ft is believed that this constitutes a newEuropean speed record. * • # Starting on May 25th, the Pan Ameri-can Airways are to introduce two flights weekly between Sydney and San i'ran-cisco, and the travelling time will be re- duced from 72 hr to 46 hr by omittingovernight stops. Hitherto Pan American had only one flight weekly between SanFrancisco and Australia. Aircraft will leave Sydney on Sundays and Thursdaysand arrive at Sydney on Saturdays and Wednesdays.
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